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(CNN)Manchester United has fired Jose Mourinho following the club’s worst ever Premier League start. The club currently languishes in sixth place in the league, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool after Sunday’s insipid 3-1 defeat at Anfield. Visit CNN/com/sport for more news, features and videos A temporary caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of …
North Korea has explicitly defined the terms of its denuclearization agreement, leaving the United States with an ultimatum likely to define an unprecedented peace process as it enters a new year experts said would likely be filled with highs and lows for diplomacy in Northeast Asia. As a historic warming between Cold War–era rivals North …
MANCHESTER: Manchester United sacked manager Jose Mourinho on Tuesday (Dec 18) after the club’s worst start to a season in nearly three decades, hoping to bring about a radical change in atmosphere and the direction of the club. Mourinho, 55, became increasingly spiky in his last few months at Old Trafford, lashing out at the board’s …
Moment of the year It has to be Eric Dier’s penalty against Colombia in the World Cup. Finally, finally England won a penalty shoot-out. And a knockout match. It may have only been a last-16 fixture, but it felt like a release, the removal of a mental block and a lift-off. And all of that …
Arsenal and Chelsea remain alive in the Europa League after near-perfect group stage showings, but this is where the stakes rise. Eight teams drop into the competition from the Champions League, including the likes of Napoli, Inter Milan, Valencia and Shakhtar Donetsk. Celtic are still in alive in the competition despite losing half of their group …
A year in which Australia was rocked by hard-hitting stories is drawing to a close. Some of the more noteworthy incidents included the revival of a high-profile cold murder case, a horrific rape and the mystery of needles appearing in strawberries, sparking a nationwide recall of the fruit. Knife-wielding terrorist Hassan Khalif Shire Ali left …
AS 2018 draws to a close, it is time to look back at all the footballing greats we lost this year. It has been a tragic year with the horrific accident at Leicester, the deaths of 1966 World Cup winners and many more who are no longer with us. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four others were …
It was certainly a version of Manchester United that looked much closer to the ideal that the club have of themselves and even Jose Mourinho, if he could watch, would have to admit that this was an evening when the country’s most successful club did what it is supposed to do routinely. For the first …
11 December 2018 • 10:06pm This was a special European night for Liverpool. A night when nerves were shredded, chances were missed and they made it through to the last-16 of the Champions League. The four minutes of added time felt like an agonised eternity and for all of the brilliance of Mohamed Salah, with …
Dec.12: Manchester United coach Jose Mourinho looks out from the bench prior a Group H Champions League soccer match between Valencia and Manchester United at the Mestalla Stadium in Valencia, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Saiz) MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Jose Mourinho was fired by Manchester United on Tuesday, two days after English soccer’s biggest club reached …